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Message-Id: <20170104.133053.1438331328167852153.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2017 13:30:53 -0500 (EST)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: mahesh@...dewar.net
Cc: edumazet@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, maheshb@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH next v1] ipvlan: assign unique dev-id for each slave
device.
From: Mahesh Bandewar <mahesh@...dewar.net>
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 12:47:16 -0800
> From: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>
>
> IPvlan setup uses one mac-address (of master). The IPv6 link-local
> addresses are derived using the mac-address on the link. Lack of
> dev-ids makes these link-local addresses same for all slaves including
> that of master device. dev-ids are necessary to add differentiation
> when L2 address is shared.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>
Applied, thanks.
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